Electric 1949 Mercury Coupe
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Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. Fifties concept cars aren’t the easiest things to restore. The handbuilt one-off glimpses of automotive futures past don’t exactly enjoy huge aftermarket support. But tha...
One of our favorite micro-movements within the first generation of the Muscle Car era is the Name thing. You’ve seen great old photos of this trend: some killer Mopar wing car or Camaro or Mustang or...
Unrestored 1947 Mercury woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A Clean and near complete Woodie. It was a southern California Beach Patrol car, back in the day....
It’s a 2004 Mercury Marauder for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 2004 Mercury Marauder. 2nd owner. 1 of 980 cars painted in Toreador Red which was only available in 2004. Purchas...
Quick: Is there a holy grail Ford motor you can name? If you answered, “Cammer!” we’re right there with you, friend. Good answer. And we never get tired of watching videos of a Ford SOHC motor runnin...
To quote Bobby DeNiro’s Al Capone in “The Untouchables;” “What is that which gives me joy?” A fresh set of slicks, thank you very much. Nothing like the aroma of a new set of tires, amiright? But, as...
In the fall of 1955, a buddy and I were going to West Texas College in Canyon, Texas. One afternoon, with nothing to do, we decided to drive to Amarillo, about 20 miles away. After driving around for...
When is too much, too much? When it comes to vintage drag racing 8mm filmstrips, we say, “NEVER.” It’s never too much. Sure, the weird soundtracks that are usually put to them when they’re transferre...
Two more lots will sell to the highest bidder later today at Hemmings Auctions: A Fox Mustang alternative, the 1982 Mercury Capri, representing ’80s V-8 muscle, plus an Advance Design workhorse from ...
What’s more awesome than an early Fox-body Mustang? An early Fox-body Mercury Capri, of course! And to celebrate the auction we’re hosting of one very cool and very red-pleathered, t-topped, low-mile...
Four-speed 1970 Mercury Cyclone for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: clean title, the title says 77,000 actual miles, the odometer on the car shows 15k miles now as the cluster ha...
Photo courtesy of Volkswagen of America. A documentary highlighting the efforts to recreate a piece of automotive art is now available for streaming on-demand at CuriosityStream. The Woodstock Bus te...
Straight-six 1968 Mercury M-100 pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Almost extinct-rare? Just recently, professionally rebuilt its’ 302 engine, I have receipt proof, runs ...
Here at Muscle Machines Weekly, we’re all about, well, muscle. And one of the things we love more than most – the stuff we look forward to…what gets us outta bed in the morning…is finding the oddball...
We love Top 10 lists. Even Forgotten 9 lists. Which brings us to this week’s video: are these the nine most-f0rgotten muscle cars? We’ll admit, there’s at least one oddball in there that we may not e...
Chevrolet’s 1958 Bel Air Impala convertible. Photo courtesy General Motors, brochure scans from author’s collection. During the late 1940s and through to the mid-1960s, sales of convertibles were rob...
Dad and I spent a hot summer day sitting in my ‘51 Mercury at the Livingston, New Jersey, drive-in theater in 1961. Hundreds of cars were being inspected…and my radiator boiled over. Photos by the au...
This week’s newsletter theme is all about “back to basics.” We think it’s a good idea to dust this off every now and again. After all, it’s great to really push the limits of what we all consider “Mu...
If you’re a regular getter and reader of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter, you no doubt jumped in on (if not were entertained by) the discussion around the factory muscle that was heaped upon us...
This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...
In 1968, the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indy were recorded for a documentary produced by Hollywood’s Documentary Productions Inc. Not only is the hour-plus film an amazing capture of what drag racing was...
When I first moved from the East Coast to California, I paid attention to the whispers of “hi-riders” I kept hearing at car shows in the East Bay region of the Northern California San Francisco Bay A...
Luckily for us, the great days of stock car racing aren’t really all that far behind us. Most of us can actually remember them. Some say they ended with Earnhardt’s crash in 2001, but we’d rather tal...
Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. When Jack Reith’s vision for a newly prominent and profitable Mercury division — led by the fantastic Ghia-built XM-Turnpike Cruiser — collapsed almost as soon as it laun...